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Has there been any progress on undeciphered languages?

I understand your concern and agree about Kyoto, but tourists can behave well or poorly and tourism can be managed well or poorly. At Jingu, I saw foreign tourists, but no problems, and locals were welcoming. Elsewhere in Mie, I saw no foreign tourists and locals were also welcoming. I would like to believe that HN readers would be beneficial tourists and might themselves benefit from experiences that cannot as easily be found in the top destinations.

Incidentally, Mie Prefecture ranked 37 out of 47 Japanese prefectures for overnight stays by foreign tourists in 2024, but it has a lot to offer in addition to Ise Jingu. For those seeking the "real Japan" beyond Tokyo, Osaka, and Kyoto. If you want to explore, consider Kintetsu's 5-day plus pass and fit this into your itinerary between Nagoya and Osaka, Kyoto, or Nara.

If you are interested in seeing original cave paintings, not reproductions, I recommend Pech Merle near Cahors, France.

What about SPARK? Not enough training data?

Please compare with FineReader.

I've been using Sphinx for 20 years for full-text search with a custom stemmer. I considered switching to Manticore, but didn't see a huge need to do so, because Sphinx still works well for me and requires zero maintenance. Any big new features that might entice me to switch? (I only have a few GB of indexes, covering a few million documents.)

If you have the opportunity to visit, I recommend Nagasaki over Hiroshima and especially these two places in Nagasaki:

Shiroyama Elementary School

Nagai Takashi Memorial Museum Nagasaki

These felt much more personal than anything I saw in Hiroshima and there were zero (other) tourists to interrupt the experience (very much unlike the museum in Hiroshima).

Used cameras and lenses can offer tremendous value.

Tried with a few historical handwritten German documents, accuracy was abysmal.

MUDs were the most enjoyable social networks I ever experienced, and the least harmful to society.

Lower latency than PS/2?

Contact (and, if you can, visit) one of the top ophthalmologists in the world, as soon as possible. You cannot take a risk that your local doctor is good enough.

Starting point: https://www.willseye.org

Audio-Technica ATR2100x, bought it for Zoom during the pandemic, very pleased. If you're in the market for an inexpensive upgrade, read the reviews for this. You will probably want to add a pop filter, even a very basic one makes a big difference. I use mine with a boom arm clamped to my desk.

Highly recommend visiting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pech_Merle if you are interested in cave paintings. Easy to access if you stay in Cahors the night before.

Thanks for commenting, as I'm not qualified to evaluate this. Authors providing such instructions should be commended, even if their result turns out to be false due to errors in measurement or interpretation.

Will they invite a wide range of experts to publicly test their material?

mail.google.com showed error messages for me intermittently during the past hour.

ODROID-HC4 (toaster), ODROID-HC4-P KIT (horizontal drives in enclosure)

I've been very happy with Tello. $5/month if, like me, you barely use your phone. Their 500 MB/month data plan with no voice minutes + one-time $20 pay-as-you-go minutes. Splitting data and voice like this means no taxes or fees, the total monthly bill is $5.

If you're in this area and like windsurfing, kitesurfing, or watching either, La Franqui is the place to go (40 km from Narbonne).

Thanks, appreciate it. Asking for a friend with 10+ years Delphi and MS SQL. Focus on warehouse management software for supermarkets, business analytics.

Any Delphi experts know of openings for remote devs from Ukraine (now in Germany)? Sorry if inappropriate to ask here, hope it's understood given the circumstances.

Thank you, will check it out.

Linode's been solid for me for 15 years, I only moved some projects to Hetzner for better pricing. Linode staff were always very helpful, nothing but positive experiences. Hope their support will remain great.

If you haven't done so, try removing dust mites or other potential allergens from your bedroom.

Not nowhere, but uncommon: calmly, filmlike, ...

For this reason, if you are considering working with powdered pigments, investigate whether you can instead use aqueous pigment dispersions. Should normally be fine for egg tempera.

You can view JHU's raw data sources at https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19. According to that, they are getting COVID death numbers for Sweden from the Swedish Public Health Agency via https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/09f821667ce64bf7be6.... I am not fluent in Swedish, but perhaps someone who is can tell you exactly how the Swedish Public Health Agency measures them. Likewise for the other countries cited.

According to the Johns Hopkins COVID-19 Dashboard, as of now, Sweden has had 15,145 deaths; Norway has had 1,050 deaths; Denmark 2,863; Finland 1,309. With populations from Wikipedia (10,402,070 for Sweden; 5,402,171 for Norway; 5,850,189 for Denmark; 5,536,146 for Finland), this yields deaths per 1,000 people of:

Sweden 1.456 Norway 0.194 Denmark 0.489 Finland 0.236

Saying Sweden has "just survived" doesn't capture these numbers well, I think. If this is "embarrassing" for anyone, it's Sweden, but I wouldn't use the word embarrassing. It's tragic.